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About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
Languages

About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures

...communication-related subjects...Find out more about The Open University's Language courses and qualifications Transcript "At the heart of our mission for the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures sits the ambition to open up access to high quality opportunities to learn languages and engage with cultures for learners from all over the globe and from all walks of life....
How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?
Languages

How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?

...communication barriers be avoided when cultures meet? Widespread concerns about communication of rights – including the right to silence – to non-native speakers of English in police interviews have led to the development and release of guidelines by the international Communication of Rights Group (CoRG). The group, co-convened by Diana Eades andAneta Pavlenko,...
How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?
Education & Development

How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?

...community, and at governmental levels. ...More than twenty years after the Macpherson Report (1999), the debate about the existence and extent of institutional racism (and how this concept is defined) within the police forces, and how to address racism in public institutions, remains highly charged and disputed. The killing of George Floyd in 2020 by police officers...
Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...communicate and tell visual stories, my study, and others before, exemplifies their ability to do so. Building on the idea that children have funds of knowledge that they have developed in the home and in their communities are seen as resources for learning, my study involved children in an English nursery, who were asked to make images of special people, days out, toys,...
iOrchestra
Society, Politics & Law

iOrchestra

...communities through music...[Online Orchestra logo] “We’re asking how we can use the internet to give children and amateur musicians who live in remote communities around the country the same opportunities to play in an orchestra as those who live in larger towns and cities. We’re designing an online orchestra that will allow people who live hundreds of miles apart...
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An introduction to grammar
Languages

An introduction to grammar

...communicate? Our short video reveals all...Transcript What is grammar? How does understanding this powerful tool help us to communicate ideas and feelings and generally get things done? This video looks at how a functional approach to grammar can help us to understand professional practice in a range of contexts, for example call centres, education, journalism and...
Start your career with OpenLearn
Education & Development

Start your career with OpenLearn

...communication, leadership… and you’ll find them all in our collection of ‘soft skills’ courses, as approved by Google. You can also check out our full collection of badged open courses on employability. Learn a language Language skills are desirable, and even essential, for prospective employers. Developing your language skills could be the key to landing yourself...
How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?
Money & Business

How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?

...communication, into virtual contexts of communication. Through close analysis of the ICT-mediated dialogical interactions between the members of a project team and the occasional face-to-face interactions between certain members of the project team and other organizational members, we show how knowledge creation emerges via three core dialogical processes: dialogues with...